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August D. Holocaust testimonies (HVT-2802) interviewed by Gabriella Tyrnauer,

Oral History | Digitized | Fortunoff Collection ID: HVT-2802

Overview

Summary: Videotape testimony of August D., a Romani, who was born in 1914. He recalls serving in the German military in Braunschweig; discharge in 1938 due to anti-Romani laws; arrest on July 14; transfer from Hannover to Sachsenhausen; slave labor in a Heinkel factory; transfer to Dachau after thirty months; liberation in Czechoslovakia; learning his parents and four siblings had perished in Auschwitz; his desire to forget these experiences and inability to do so; and receiving compensation for seven years in concentration camps at the rate of five marks per day. Mr. D.'s sons and others discuss the current neo-Nazi movement; pernicious and frequent anti-Romani and anti-Jewish threats and violence; lack of government response to their plight; and their affinity for Israel and sense of brotherhood with Jews.
Author/Creator: D., August, 1914-
Published: Austria : Fortunoff Video Archive for Holocaust Testimonies, 1991
Interview Date: July 21, 1991.
Locale: Germany
Braunschweig (Germany)
Hannover (Germany)
Cite As: August D. Holocaust Testimony (HVT-2802). Fortunoff Video Archive for Holocaust Testimonies, Yale University Library.
Other Authors/Editors: Tyrnauer, Gabrielle, interviewer.
Notes: This testimony is in German.

Physical Details

Language: German
Copies: 2 copies: 3/4 in. dub; and 1/2 in. VHS with time coding.
Physical Description: 1 videorecording (49 min.) : col

Keywords & Subjects

Subjects (Local Yale): Postwar effects.
Postwar experiences.
Subjects: Video tapes. Men. World War, 1939-1945--Personal narratives, Romani. Forced labor. Concentration camp inmates. Romanies--Nazi persecution--Germany. Romanies--Germany--History--20th century. Braunschweig (Germany) Hannover (Germany) Oral histories (document genres) D., August,--1914- Ernst Heinkel-Flugzeugwerke. Sachsenhausen (Concentration camp) Dachau (Concentration camp)

Administrative Notes

Holder of Originals: Fortunoff Video Archive for Holocaust Testimonies
Special Collection: Fortunoff Video Archive for Holocaust Testimonies

Link to Yale University Library Catalog:: http://hdl.handle.net/10079/bibid/4288803
Record last modified:: 2018-05-30 11:44:00
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